CNET on anti-Microsoft Sentiments

by on April 9, 2007 · 6 comments

By attorney Lars Liebeler, in CNET, a discussion of recent antitrust actions here and abroad, in particular scrutiny of the Novell/Microsoft agreement.

Each generation has its antitrust bogeyman from Standard Oil down to AT&T & IBM. The short-run obsession in policy circles with a single company (when policy properly conceived ought to be anonymous for the best results in the long run) invites gaming the system, and results in exceptions dominating what ought to be the rules to an alarming extent. Principled resistance to this tendency is very weak in the EU, where fines are seized on to feed growing armies of bureaucrats in Brussels and the trend is fueled by anti-Americanism.

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Solveig Singleton / Solveig Singleton is a lawyer and writer, with ventures into ceramic sculpture, photography, painting, and animal welfare work. Past venues for her policy work include the Cato Institute (mostly free speech, telecom, and privacy), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (mostly privacy and ecommerce), the Progress and Freedom Foundation (mostly IP). She is presently an adjunct fellow with the Institute for Policy Innovation and is working on a new nonprofit venture, the Convergence Law Institute. She holds degrees from Cornell Law School and Reed College. Favorite Movie: Persuasion. Favorite Books: Dhalgren; Villette; Freedom and the Law. Favorite Art: Kinetic sculpture--especially involving Roombas. Most obsolete current technology deployed: a 30 yr. old Canon AE-1. Music: these days, mostly old blues, classical guitar, Poe, Cowboy Junkies, Ministry. Phobia: Clowns.

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